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Chapter 96 19 Cold breakfast damages health

The human body always likes a warm environment. When the body is warm, the microcirculation will be normal, and the transportation of oxygen, nutrients and wastes will be smooth.

Therefore, you should eat hot food for breakfast to protect your stomach.Stomach qi in traditional Chinese medicine has a broad sense, and it does not simply refer to the stomach as an organ. It includes the digestion and absorption capabilities of the spleen and stomach, acquired immunity, and muscle functions.

In the morning, the yin at night has not been removed, and the temperature of the earth has not yet risen.The muscles, nerves and blood vessels of the human body are still in a state of contraction. If you eat or drink cold food at this time, it will definitely make the various systems in the body more contracted and the blood flow more difficult.

Maybe when you first eat cold food, you don’t feel any discomfort in your stomach and intestines, but as time goes by or you get older, you will always feel uncomfortable eating, stools are always loose, skin is getting worse, and your throat is old. It is faint phlegm, not refreshing, frequent colds, and constant minor ailments. This is because it hurts the stomach and lowers the body's resistance.

Therefore, for breakfast, you should eat hot porridge, hot oatmeal, hot goat milk, hot tofu flower, hot soy milk, sesame paste, yam porridge or Cantonese porridge, etc., and then eat vegetables, bread, sandwiches, fruits, snacks, etc.

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In the north, many people’s breakfast is the standard deep-fried dough sticks with soy milk, especially older people are used to this, but fried dough sticks should be eaten less, because deep-fried dough sticks are high-temperature fried foods, which are not good for health after eating, especially for the elderly, Pregnant women and children should not eat deep-fried dough sticks.

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